Tag: Jennifer Clement

29 Nov 2017

The Women’s Manifesto was tabled and unanimously passed at the PEN International Congress on 21 September 2017 in Lviv, Ukraine. Margie Orford, former PEN SA President and current PEN SA and PEN International Board Member, was on the Advisory Committee...

01 Mar 2017

PEN SA President Margie Orford made the following speech on 30 January 2017 at the Free Speech Debate at St Antony’s College at Oxford University with PEN International President Jennifer Clement. The event was chaired by Timothy Garton Ash. A...

15 Dec 2015

Holiday greetings to all our PEN South Africa members and friends By Margie Orford This has been as busy and tumultuous a year for PEN South Africa as it has been for so many people in South Africa and around...

09 Dec 2015

PEN South Africa strongly supports the call for the release of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia. In view of the growing close trade and business relationships between South Africa and China, we draw the attention of South Africans to this...

23 Nov 2015

November 16, 2015 Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, A last monthly letter to say thank you and to report on the 81st Congress in Quebec City. First, the obvious, we have a new President. Jennifer Clement, a wonderful novelist. She...

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